Our Publications

For each section, items are listed in chronological order, most recent ones coming first. Due to copyright restrictions, not all publications are available online. Available papers are saved as (Unix) compressed postscript (*.ps.Z).

Books Floreano, D. Manuale sulle Reti Neurali. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1996.

Journals Floreano, D., and Mondada, F. Evolutionary Neurocontrollers for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Neural Networks, To appear, 1998. Urzelai, J., Floreano, D., Dorigo, M., and Colombetti, M. Incremental Robot Shaping., Connection Science, To appear, 1998. Kay, J., Floreano, D., and Phillips, W. A. Contextually Guided Unsupervised Learning Using Local Multivariate Binary Processors. Neural Networks, 11, 117-140, 1998. Arleo, A., del R. Millán, J., Floreano, D. Efficient Learning of Variable-Resolution Cognitive Maps for Autonomous Indoor Navigation., Technical Report AAR9820P, Submitted to the IEEE's Journal of Robotics and Automation, March 1998. Floreano, D. Engineering Adaptive Behavior. Adaptive Behavior, 5(3/4), 407-416, 1997. Floreano, D. An Internal Teacher. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, to appear, 1997. [Long commentary wih new experiments for the target article by Phillips, W. A. and Singer, W. In search of common foundations for cortical computation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997] Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Evolution of Homing Navigation in a Real Mobile Robot. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part B: Cybernetics, 26(3), 396-407, 1996. Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. Evolution of neural control structures: Some experiments on mobile robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 16, 183-195, 1995. Nolfi, S., Floreano, D., Miglino, O., and Mondada, F. Robotica Evolutiva: metodologia e prospettive. Sistemi Intelligenti, 7(2), 213-223, 1995. Floreano, D., Phillips, W. A., and Kay, J. A computational theory of learning visual features via contextual guidance. Perception, 24S, 22, 1995. Floreano, D., Parisi, D., Antinucci, F., and Natale, F. Eye tracking with a recurrent neural network.Cognitive Systems, 3, 331-349, 1993. Floreano, D. and Nolfi, S. Rassegna sulle reti neurali: algoritmi e ambienti di apprendimento. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 23, 1-35, 1993.

Book Chapters Floreano, D. Evolutionary Robotics in Artificial Life and Behavior Engineering In T. Gomi (Ed.), Evolutionary Robotics, Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1998. Floreano, D. and Urzelai, J Evolution and learning in autonomous robots. In Mange, T. and Tomassini, M. (eds.) Bio-inspired Computing Systems, Lausanne: PPUR, 1998. Floreano, D., Godjevac, J., Martinoli, A., Mondada, F., Nicoud, J-D. Design, Control, and Applications of Autonomous Mobile Robots. In Tzafestas, S. G. (ed.) Advances in Intelligent Autonomous Agents, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. Floreano, D. Evolutionary Mobile Robotics. In D. Quagliarelli, J. Periaux, C. Poloni, and G. Winter (eds.) Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1997. Floreano, D. Ago Ergo Sum. In G. Mulhauser (Ed.), Evolving Consciousness, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1997. Floreano, D. Reducing Human Design and Increasing Adaptivity in Evolutionary Robotics In T. Gomi (Ed.), Evolutionary Robotics, Ontario (Canada): AAI Books, 1997. Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. Evolution and Mobile Autonomous Robotics. In Sanchez, E. and Tomassini, M. (Eds.), Towards Evolvable Hardware, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1996. Parisi, D., Pagliarini, L., and Floreano, D. Un modello neurale dell'apprendimento del linguaggio: imitazione, coordinamento arbitrario di schemi, rappresentazione mentale. In Laudanna, A., and Burani, C. (Eds.), Il lessico: processi e rappresentazioni, Firenze: La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1993.

Collection papers Urzelai, J., Floreano, D., Dorigo, M. and Colombetti, M. Incremental Robot Shaping In J. Koza et al. (Eds.), 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. In press, 1998. Floreano, D., Nolfi, S. and Mondada, F. Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics: From Theory to Practice. In R. Pfeifer, From Animals to Animats IV, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Hardware Solutions for Evolutionary Robotics. To be published in P. Husbands and J-A. Meyer, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1998. Nolfi, S. and Floreano, D. How co-evolution can enhance the adaptation power of artificial evolution: Implications for evolutionary robotics. To be published in P. Husbands and J-A. Meyer, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1998. Floreano, D. and Nolfi, S. Adaptive Behavior in Competitive Co-Evolutionary Robotics. In P. Husbands and I. Harvey, Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Artificial Life, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. Floreano, D. and Nolfi, S. God Save the Red Queen! Competition in Co-Evolutionary Robotics. In J. Koza et al. (Eds.), 2nd Conference on Genetic Programming, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. del R. Millán, J., Arleo, A. Neural NetworkLearning of Variable Grid-Based Maps for the Autonomous Navigation of Robots, IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA'97), Monterey, CA, July 1997. Urzelai J., Uribe J.P., and Ezkerra J.M., Fuzzy Controller for wall following with a non-holonomous mobile robot. FUZZ-IEEE '97, The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, July 1997, Barcelona, Spain. Uribe J.P. and Urzelai J., Controlador Fuzzy para la Evitacin de Obstaculos en un Robot Movil No Holonomo. ESTYLF '97, 7th Spanish Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Technologies, September 1997, Tarragona, Spain. Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Evolution of Plastic Neurocontrollers for Situated Agents. In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, and S. Wilson. (Eds.), From Animals to Animats IV, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Floreano, D. Evolutionary Re-Adaptation of Neurocontrollers in Changing Environments. In Sincak, P. (Ed.), Intelligent Technologies, Kosice, SK: UPA Press, 1996. Floreano, D. Extraction of Coherent Information from Non-Overlapping Receptive Fields. In C. von der Malsburg, W. von Seelen, J.C. Vorbrueggen, B. Sendhoff. Artificial Neural Networks-ICANN96, Berlin, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1996. Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Evolving fast-learning neural controllers for a mobile robot. In Brain and Evolution. Proceedings of the XXIV Conference of Neurobiology, Goettingen: Thieme-Verlag, 1996. (Summary) Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Active Perception, Navigation, Homing, and Grasping: An autonomous Perspective. In Ph. Gaussier and J.-D. Nicoud (Eds.), From Perception to Action Conference, Los Alamitos, CA: IEE Computer Society Press, 1994. Nolfi, S., Floreano, D., Miglino, O., and Mondada, F. How to Evolve Autonomous Robots: Different Approaches in Evolutionary Robotics. In R. A. Brooks and P. Maes (Eds.), Proceedings of the IV International Workshop on Artificial Life, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Floreano, D. and Mondada, F. Automatic Creation of an Autonomous Agent: Genetic Evolution of a Neural Network Driven Robot. In D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J.-A. Meyer, and S. Wilson (Eds.), From Animals to Animats III, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Mondada, F. and Floreano, D. Conception �évolutionniste de r�éseaux de neurones pour le controle de robots mobiles. Proceedings of NSI'94, Chamonix, 1994. Floreano, D. Anticipatory Tracking of a Moving Object. In V. Roberto (Ed.), Artificial and Natural Visual Systems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series), 1993. Floreano, D. Patterns of Interactions in Shared Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference of Artificial Life, Vol. II, Bruxelles, 1993. Floreano, D. Emergence of Nest-Based Foraging Strategies in Ecosystems of Neural Networks. In J.-A. Meyer, H. L. Roitblat, and S. Wilson (Eds.) From Animals to Animats II. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. Parisi, D. and Floreano, D. Prediction and Imitation of Linguistic Sounds by Neural Networks. In A. Paoloni (Ed.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Networks and Speech Processing, Roma: Fondazione Bordoni, 1992. Floreano, D., Miglino, O., and Parisi, D. Emergent complex behaviours in ecosystems of neural networks. In E. R. Caianiello (Ed.), Parallel Architectures and Neural Networks, Singapore: World Scientific P., 1991.

Other Publications Floreano, D. Special Issue on Adaptive Problem Solving Informatik/Informatique, 1(3), 1998. Floreano, D. Interview on Evolutionary Robotics. Conducted by M. Kelly and G. Robertson for EvoNews, 26 August 1997 Floreano, D. Reti neurali artificiali: fondamenti tecnici e teorici. AREA Science Park in Trieste (Italy), Laboratory of Cognitive Technology, TR 94-01, 1994. Floreano, D. ROBOGEN: A Software Package for Evolutionary Control Systems (Release 1.1). AREA Science Park in Trieste (Italy), Laboratory of Cognitive Technology, TR 93-01, 1993. Floreano, D. and Parisi, D. Internal Prediction and Environment Models: An application to the development of language. University of Stirling, Technical Report CCCN-10, 1992. Floreano, D., Zang, L., and Gerbino, W. Symmetry Detection with a Neural Network. International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (Italy), Technical Report 91-04, 1991.

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